No words about the memorial for Flo Goral? A person who formed the EWS from its very beginning and died tragically 30 years young immediately before the event? Poor performance Pinkbike!
Aside from that, this is quite good but not sport journalisms masterclass. Somehow halfway between journalism and advertisement. A real journalistic coverage would have had more words what a great advantage the early start times were. More real interviews would be nice, too.
So the coverage is on the right track but not on par with e.g. Eurosport covering road cycling.

@webbe: No, it doesn't. The Lyriks is absolutely on par with a 36 if not better. I like it better in fact. The Monarch Plus requires a little gettin' used to and a whole different setup with way more SAG than I rode with the Fox shock, though. But it performs well on the frame, though the window within it is working perfectly seems noticeably smaller to me than with a Float X2.

@webbe: I have somewhat of a really close relation to Sram, both personally and professionally. Thus I went for a full Sram build. The Fox build works a treat though. Really good. Maybe give the guys at Mojo Suspension a call. Chris is one of the brains behind the Geo and they offer testrides, too.

Hi Webbe, thankyou! Frame size is large and the fork is a Lyrik with 180mm. Works great. You find the geo charts here:
http://www.nicolai-bicycles.com/shop/pdfs/Nicolai%20Tech_sheet%20%202017%20-%20ION-%20G16%202017.pdf